MOSAIC

Credit Where Credit’s Due

studying Civil War-era photographers found that a well-known image of Abraham Lincoln’s March 1861 inauguration was taken by a federal employee named John Wood, not Civil War photographer and Mathew Brady associate Alexander Gardner, as long thought. Adrienne Lundgren in her research had noticed that John Wood’s images resembled the inauguration photo in size and perspective. Lundgren clinched her case when she found that a photo by Wood was credited as the basis for a lithograph of James Buchanan’s 1857 inauguration. U.S. Army engineer Montgomery Meigs had hired Wood to document government projects such as the completion of the U.S. Capitol dome and the extension of the building’s wings and dome that